10 Things you need to know about Stalking
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Loading... - Beatrice Darko
- 13 Sep 2022
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Stalking animals is an art, but you can’t be an artist without knowing some of the science. Here’s how to manage a successful stalk.
1. MOVE LESS, SEE MORE
The first fundamental thing to realise about stalking is that you must find your target before anything can happen. Looking should be your first priority. Use your eyes and use binoculars, even in close country; binoculars improve your vision way beyond the abilities of your bare eyes.
It’s hard to look around when you’re on the move, so the best technique is to slowly move about 10 or 20 paces, then prop and look for a few minutes. And I mean minutes, not just a few moments.
2. MOVEMENT IS VISIBILITY
One reason you should move as little as possible is because movement is easy to spot, even in peripheral vision. Both you and your quarry are ten times more likely to see something if it moves than if it’s stationary.
3. TRAIN YOUR EYES
The best hunters have trained their eyes to pick animals out of the background. More accurately, it’s the brain that learns to do this, using the eyes. Experience and exposure are the best teachers of this, so you have to get out there if you want to be better at it. You should be consciously looking for partial shapes of animals in the scrub; for odd shadows; for the flick of a tail. Read More...
